Do you have a cold? It is nothing serious but is annoying and you want to get better as soon as possible, right?
Homemade tea for colds is well-known to relieve cold symptoms and help you to strengthen your immune system.
Herbal teas contain essential oils, tannins, bitters, vitamins and also minerals. These natural ingredients are in each herb, but their proportions vary throughout the structure.
Therefore some teas may have a similar effect, but each type has its own distinctive character.
Regular but moderate tea drinking helps us maintain health, as it strengthens the body’s defenses, helps to detoxify and stimulates metabolism.
Drinking herbal teas is especially recommended during colds and other virosis so let’s dive in and see which herbs are best to include in your tea bland.
Which tea is best for colds?
If you have a cold with flu or severe cold, there is nothing better than stay at home and rest to recuperate.
Teas are the best to drink at this time due to hydration and vitamins your body needs. With tea, you will consume a lot of fluid, which is necessary for reducing fever.
Also, medicines for lowering your body temperature may be less effective, if you don’t drink enough. I recommend the next herbs to fight viruses effectively.
Elderflower
Doctors often advise us to sweat well, if we have colds and viruses.
Tea from the elderflowers and (or) elderflower fruits stimulate sweating, secretion of the urine and stimulate the functioning of the immune system.
Health benefits
It soothes catarrh and coughs, helps to cough, heals sore throats, helps with flu, asthma, and bronchitis, and initial pneumonia. Drinking elderflower preparations reduce recuperating of flu for half.
Drink from the elderflower leaves cleanses the blood and is the best skin cleanser you can get. The leaves are also good against the unpleasant body smell.
The taste
It is very aromatic and tasty, so you can drink it for the thirst also.
You can add a little lemon or orange juice and honey in your drink, just be sure that tea is not too hot (honey and lemon active ingredients would be destroyed).
Rosehip
Use rosehip fruits in your tasteful herbal tea that is especially recommended for drinking in the wintertime when colds are often.
It is rich in natural vitamin C and responsible for increasing the natural resistance to infections. It is recommended for use in elderly people who usually don’t consume enough vitamin C with food.
A bomb of vitamin C
This tea contains 10 times more vitamin C than a lemon. Studies have found that regular vitamin C intake can shorten the duration of cold symptoms and even weaken them.
Additionally, it is a very important vitamin that you shouldn’t lack, as it is needed to create collagen, which is beneficial for the finer skin, nails, hair, vitality and healthy joints.
The intake of vitamin C strengthens the immune system and helps you to recuperate. Our body can’t store this vitamin, so it is essential to enjoy it daily (even when you are healthy).
Linden
Linden flowers contain mucus and stimulate sweating, so this tea is proven to be an excellent natural medicine in the case of colds, coughs, and issues with the respiratory tract.
Strengthen the immune system
It helps to strengthen the immune system due to its high amount of vitamins and antioxidants. Tea from linden flowers prevents cold and flu diseases. Also, its consumption can reduce temperature.
It’s good for people who are stressed and for those who can’t sleep because it relaxes. Nevertheless, tea from linden flowers should be enjoyed moderately, since excessive amounts can cause heart problems.
Hibiscus
The useful part of the hibiscus is actually just a flower. It contains a lot of organic acids, mucus, and pectin. Anthocyanins are responsible for its red color.
Hibiscus also has its own active substances. Ingestion in large quantities works as a mild laxative because the plant acids are difficult to absorb into the blood from the intestine.
Health benefits
A tea from hibiscus flowers should alleviate abdominal and uterine cramps among other things, destroy bacteria and eliminate abdominal parasites recording to African folk medicine.
It removes bile and water from the body, and also lower blood pressure.
Hibiscus tea improves the appetite, strengthens the immune system, gastric and windpipe catarrh, dissolves windpipe mucus, and regulates interfering circulation.
Ginger
Last but not least we have ginger. It helps with digestive and intestinal problems, and because of its antiseptic action, it is an excellent prevention agent against infectious diseases.
At the same time, it lowers fever and acts as an antioxidant, a fighter against free radicals.
Active substances
Ginger contains oil that is rich in sesquiterpenes, which includes zingiberene that greatly relieves inflammation. In addition, monoterpenes and aldehydes are also included.
Recent research has shown that precisely these ingredients work on one of the most common cold viruses. The burning ingredients of ginger also relieve nausea and vomiting.
Many folk healers suggest chewing fresh ginger root, drinking ginger tea, or ingesting juice from the ginger root along with a teaspoon of honey for relieving pain and tightness in the chest caused by flu and cold.
Make a powerful homemade tea
If you are sick, try to make a homemade tea for colds from herbs and spices that I mentioned in the article.
Boil a liter or two of water and put two slices of fresh ginger root in the water. Wait for 3 minutes and add elderflower, linden, rosehip or whatever herb is full with vitamin C and antioxidants.
For this mixture, you can also use echinacea, sage, and chamomile.
Before you use any of these herbs, please read more about possible side effects. I think you should use elderflower, echinacea, and rosehip as a basis for the tea. Use chamomile, linden, and sage in moderation.
For faster recuperation take care of warm clothes, healthy nutrition full of vitamins and minerals, a rest and short walks on the fresh air. I wish you a fast recuperation.
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